Adobe announces Camera Raw update with K20D/K200D support

[Ole]

Camera Raw 4.4 update

March 14, 2008
This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original Camera Raw plug-in that was installed with Adobe Photoshop CS3; Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0; and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 and 4.0 software. Visit the Camera Raw page for a complete list of supported cameras.

[AlanR]

Thank you for posting this!

[pw-pix]

It has now been pulled from the website and a warning posted not to use it unless you must have the additional camera support.
Lightroom update also pulled.
See Adobe website for more info. Nothing life threatening, but some issues that make it troublesome.

[benjikan]

Originally Posted by Ole

Camera Raw 4.4 update

March 14, 2008
This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original Camera Raw plug-in that was installed with Adobe Photoshop CS3; Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0; and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 and 4.0 software. Visit the Camera Raw page for a complete list of supported cameras.

It is back up now.

Ben

[Ole]

Originally Posted by pw-pix

It has now been pulled from the website and a warning posted not to use it unless you must have the additional camera support.
Lightroom update also pulled.
See Adobe website for more info. Nothing life threatening, but some issues that make it troublesome.

I don't understand - it's still there, hasn't been pulled.
It works like a charm for me (K10D and *istD), no issues at all.
Adobe Bridge still crashes from time to time, I don't suspect that's related to ACR, though.

[volosong]

This is an "old" thread, but is showing up on the Pentax Forums title page. From what I understand, the issue is that ACR4.4 corrupts K20D PEF files. Has this been fixed? I too did not see any warning message or saw that it was pulled. One would think that a bug fix would have a different version number, at least 4.4a or 4.4.1. Is it "safe" to now use the current download with the K20D PEF files? If you have the new version of 4.4, what is the byte size? Maybe I can tell from that.

[deejjjaaaa]

Originally Posted by volosong

This is an "old" thread, but is showing up on the Pentax Forums title page. From what I understand, the issue is that ACR4.4 corrupts K20D PEF files. Has this been fixed? I too did not see any warning message or saw that it was pulled. One would think that a bug fix would have a different version number, at least 4.4a or 4.4.1. Is it "safe" to now use the current download with the K20D PEF files? If you have the new version of 4.4, what is the byte size? Maybe I can tell from that.

they posted

• EXIF Time Stamp Error: There is an error in the EXIF time stamp update technology that causes Lightroom to believe that the files are out of sync with the correct time stamp as displayed in Lightroom. Any ensuing metadata update will attempt to incorrectly modify the EXIF time stamp in the original raw file itself. This is the only metadata field that Lightroom will write to an original proprietary raw file. This error will not impact the integrity of your image data. The Camera Raw plug-in also will incorrectly change the EXIF time stamp in files converted by the plug-in. The information written to the XMP sidecar files or XMP metadata in the converted files will remain correct.
• DNG Conversion Error(Windows Only): With the latest version of the Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 applications, Adobe has included technology to verify that the image data in a DNG file is unchanged from when it was originally converted to DNG. Unfortunately, when converting to DNG using Lightroom 1.4 on Windows, the application will write an incorrect verification tag to describe the image data. When Lightroom attempts to work with those files in the Develop module, the application reads that incorrect tag, believes that there is something wrong with the raw data and will present an error. Rest assured, there is nothing wrong with the integrity of your image data or metadata. For those that have already converted their files to DNG using Lightroom 1.4(Windows only) we recommend using the DNG 4.3.1 converter to convert the DNG files you’ve created with Lightroom 1.4.
• Olympus Conversion Error: There is an error in converting Olympus JPEG files to other formats in Lightroom 1.4 and the Camera Raw 4.4 plug-in.

[volosong]

Thanks for the info. I must be dense...in fact, I know that I am at times. Could you please clarify for me? I don't use Lightroom, but CS3 (and CS2 on an older machine). Does this mean that there are no "issues" with ACR 4.4 under Photoshop? Can I safely convert my PEF files to DNG files? Thanks for helping.

[sir_bazz]

Originally Posted by volosong

Thanks for the info. I must be dense...in fact, I know that I am at times. Could you please clarify for me? I don't use Lightroom, but CS3 (and CS2 on an older machine). Does this mean that there are no "issues" with ACR 4.4 under Photoshop? Can I safely convert my PEF files to DNG files? Thanks for helping.

Not sure about the PEF->DNG but the only issue with ACR in CS3 is the timestamp of the jpeg gets set to 00:00 in the exif data.

Not a big issue for most users.

bazz.

[agchang]

The Adobe Camera Raw update v4.4.1 and Lightroom update v1.4.1 are now available for download and address the problems with ACR update v4.4 and Lightroom v1.4 that were pulled back.

[HermanLee]

Does anybody know if I need to do the ACR update since I'm just using K100D?

Thank,s

[Fototim]

Originally Posted by agchang

The Adobe Camera Raw update v4.4.1 and Lightroom update v1.4.1 are now available for download and address the problems with ACR update v4.4 and Lightroom v1.4 that were pulled back.

Many have experienced troubles with the download page. It simply will not load.
Here is an alternative link for the windows version ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/lightroom/win/1.x/ You should probably be able to find the Mac version if you navigate from there.

MaritimTim